June 2010
12 posts
Blackhawk Up
June 25, 2010 From my Blackberry Blackhawk Up I’m sitting in a Blackhawk helicopter with the Time Bandits in Baghdad. The flash of the rotor as it slashes the dusty sheet of sunlight that is the entire sky makes everything herky jerky like a home movie. I tug on the tabs of my shoulder straps as I realize the wide open door isn’t a door at all. There is no door. The whole side...
Under the Cammo Netting, Somewhere in Kuwait
From My Blackberry Under the Cammo Netting, Somewhere in Kuwait Thursday, June 24, 2010, 1:17am Woke up 04:00 hours. (4am, my civilian friends) jet lagged and unable to get back to sleep. Around 6:45 Ben “Stretch” Burger knocked on my door and we braved the already high 90’s hot breeze and daylight bright like lightning that forgot to end and went to breakfast. I ate two ...
Somewhere in Kuwait
From my blackberry
Somewhere in Kuwait
June 22, 2010
I’m wide awake, jet lagged and it’s around 6am. Out of a robin’s egg, pale sky; through my dusty window, past the dark blue curtain, comes the tale end of the dawn’s early light and with it, faintly, bravely, the clear, staccato notes of a gallant bugle’s Reveille.
twelve minutes
twelve minutes june 21, 2010 it’s about twelve minutes before i have to be down in the lobby to catch the plane for amsterdam and on to kuwait. jon and i had a great gig here in atlanta last night. 99X has a concert series and he and i had a few jack daniels and played until the people were dancing in the aisles. it felt good. we played about two hours and got a double encore. matt,...
a memory
a memory june 21, 2010 around the time that i wrote two princes, when i was nineteen and living in my home town, princeton, new jersey, i was walking home through the weird, kind of maze like parking lot off witherspoon street with a boom box quietly playing muddy waters’ chess collection. i was loping along the cinder block wall where my friend, ben lewis, had spray painted “the distu”...
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our new "little record," songs from the summer of...
starlog - june 16, 2010
songs from the summer of sangria: chris barron and the time bandits bring you five new songs (from the uhh.. you know, the summer of sangria). produced by the great eric ambel who also plays stunt guitar, it’s receiving raves from all kinds of people who aren’t even our moms and stuff. “songs from the summer of sangria” is available like...